Keith Robinson News

Actor and performer Israel Cortez is becoming quite the YouTube sensation thanks in part to his solo remix interpretation of the powerhouse song 'It's All Over' from the film version of the musical 'Dreamgirls'. Cortez, a La Palma, California, resident, plays all the parts in the song, which is sung by Jamie Foxx, Keith Robinson, Beyonce, Anika Noni Rose and Sharon Leal as they confront Jennifer Hudson's 'Effie'.

Wanda Sykes, Emmy winning entertainer and one of the country's premiere comedians, is coming to the Union County Performing Arts Center in Rahway on March 19th. Wanda Sykes has been called one of the funniest stand up comics by her peers and ranks among Entertainment Weekly's 25 Funniest People in America. Sykes currently can be seen on the CBS comedy The New Adventures of Old Christine with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and was a writer and performer on HBO's The Chris Rock Show for five years where she was nominated for three Emmy awards and in 1999 won the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special.

On Monday, February 19, 2007, at The Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles, the Beverly Hills/Hollywood chapter of the NAACP will honor and celebrate excellence in African American theatre.

Dreamgirls, the highly anticipated film version of the classic Broadway musical, had a star-studded premiere at New York's Ziegfeld Theatre on December 4th

Dreamgirls fans will have their pick of two soundtracks from the upcoming film version of the show on December 5th

Press attending this year's Cannes Film Festival were given an opportunity to see 20 minutes of never-before-seen footage from the film, which opens in the United States this Holiday season.

Shooting began on Monday, January 9, at the Palace Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, under the direction of Academy Award(R) winner Bill Condon. Filming on 'Dreamgirls' will also be accomplished at Los Angeles Center Studios, as well as on location in and around Los Angeles.